OMT - Control Room Operator

Talen Energy; Kentucky; Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Waterford Power, LLC in Waterford, OH is seeking a highly skilled Control Room Operator to monitor and control a combined-cycle power generation unit. You will start up, operate, and shutdown turbines, HRSGs, and auxiliaries, while ensuring safe, efficient plant performance.

Responsibilities include data entry in logbooks, responding to alarms, maintaining boiler water chemistry, conducting testing with QA/QC standards, and performing preventive maintenance.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree preferred; 5+ years in CC power plant operations.
• Knowledge of start-up, operation, and shutdown of boilers/HRSGs and their auxiliaries.
• Knowledge of chemical tests, environmental sampling, and QA/QC standards.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and operate turbines, HRSGs, boilers, pumps, exciters, transformers, and switchyard from the control room.
• Enter and review data in the electronic logbook and rounds log.
• Respond to alarms and abnormal conditions to ensure safe plant operation.
• Maintain boiler water chemistry and plant cycle chemistry; sample and analyze operational data.
• Operate and maintain water treatment plant; unload chemicals per site procedures.
• Conduct preventive and predictive maintenance; inspect and service equipment.
• Use PI and other software to extract data, analyze trends, and report status.

Skills

Control room operations

Power plant operations

Instrumentation & controls

Chemical analysis

Safety compliance

Troubleshooting

Documentation & reporting

Education

Associate degree

Tools

PI

Electrical test equipment

Job description

## OMT - Control Room OperatorApply: Waterford, OH: Full time: Posted Yesterday: R0004241**Essential Duties and Responsibilities:**•Adhere to proper operating practices and procedures designed to prevent injury, illness, and environmental noncompliance.•Observe governmental and company environmental, safety and health regulations.•Perform equipment checks to ensure safe and efficient operations during the start-up, operation and shutdown of turbines, generators, condensers, boilers/heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs), boiler feed pumps, exciters, transformers, switchyard, and auxiliary equipment.•Operate valves, pumps, electrical disconnects, breakers and controls, etc., from remote locations as needed.•Enter and review data in the electronic logbook and electronic rounds log.•Monitor and respond to alarms and unusual conditions to ensure proper operation of equipment within established standards and report / document irregular and abnormal operating conditions.•Maintain and monitor basic boiler water chemistry and other plant cycle chemistry by reviewing operational data and collecting and analyzing samples.•Maintain and operate the water treatment plant.•Operate and maintain precision laboratory and field analyzers with QA/QC standards. Unload deliveries of chemicals and gases per site procedures.•Use elementary, schematic, wiring and control diagrams to locate, troubleshoot and repair control systems involving electrical, electronic, mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic components.•Use electrical and instrumentation test equipment to troubleshoot and calibrate plant equipment.•Perform mechanical maintenance work including, dismantling, rebuilding, adjusting, aligning, packing, and cleaning equipment. Repair valves, actuators, piping, and small pumps such as centrifugal, sump diaphragm, etc.•Perform predictive and preventive maintenance work by inspecting monitoring, lubricating, troubleshooting, and testing plant equipment to determine conditions such as wear, corrosion, and deposits.•Perform inspections and corrective maintenance activities on plant equipment and components.•Use work management systems to initiate, retrieve and update work orders, material requests, PM’s, and time entry, etc.•Use various computer applications and software programs such as PI to extract data, analyze trends, and report status to ensure plant reliability and efficiency.•Operate, monitor, maintain and calibrate environmental and industrial hygiene equipment such as CEMS, gas detection devices, etc.•Conduct JSAs, utilize JHAs, SDS’s, etc. and follow established facility guidelines in job briefings. Work under general direction of CC Supervisor.•Isolate plant equipment and remove stored energy in accordance with the Clearance Permit Procedure.•Obtain clearance permits and ensure that equipment is properly cleared and tagged before work begins in accordance with the Clearance Permit Procedure.•Obtain hot work and confined space permits in accordance with Waterford Power, LLC policies, to complete work safely.•Ensure compliance with applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations and Waterford Power, LLC policies, procedures, standards, and specifications.•Attend and actively participate in environmental, safety and health, technical, business and leadership training and meetings.•Report and correct any unsafe actions, conditions or near misses.•Responsible for exercising maximum care and good judgment in preventing accidents and protecting the safety and health of fellow workers.•Demonstrate a strong work ethic, integrity, and to work and communicate effectively with all employees and contractors.•Demonstrate strong positive attitude, ethical behavior and show strong leadership in safe and healthy work behaviors and environmental stewardship.•Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.**Minimum Requirements:**•Combined Cycle Control Room Operator experience preferred.•Prefer +5 years of Combined Cycle power plant experience in operations, maintenance, electrical, instrumentation and controls in gas turbine/HRSG systems. Other experiences will be considered.•Associate’s degree, Vocational Technical School (two-year college) is preferred or relevant equivalent experience.•Must have a knowledge of applicable operating and maintenance instructions and procedures.•Must have a knowledge of the principles of operating the plant safely and efficiently during start-up, normal operation, and shutdown of boilers / HRSGs, turbines, generators, condensers, boiler feed pumps, exciters, transformers, etc. and their auxiliaries and accessories.•Must have the skills and knowledge of plant operations, control room, power block, Water Treatment Plant.•Must have knowledge and skills needed to analyze, interpret, calibrate, and adjust plant instruments and controls and be capable of detecting and making repairs to simple control systems and understand protective systems.•Must have knowledge and skills of chemical tests, procedures, reagents, etc. to perform chemical analysis, industrial hygiene evaluations, and environmental sampling.•Must have a knowledge and skills per minor power plant maintenance, materials, practices, tools, rigging, scaffolding, and blocking involved in the work.•Must have a knowledge of the heat balance systems and the effect of unbalances on operating efficiency.•Understand the care and attention required for the safe and efficient operation and maintenance of the equipment to which assigned.•Physical requirements include lifting 50 pounds, walking, bending, squatting, kneeling, pushing, pulling, ascending, and descending fixed ladders, portable ladders, steps, etc.•Ability to work a 12-hour rotating shift that may include holidays.•Position will require, at times, overtime coverage; scheduled and call out.•Must have a valid driver’s license.•Must pass a background check and a drug & alcohol test.•Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills.**Note:**You will have an opportunity to add attachments to your application. Please use this opportunity to upload your resume, cover letter, and any relevant documents .